The life and death of Peter Sellers

Roger Lewis, in his no-holds-barred biography, exposes a Peter Sellers the world little knows. Recognised as the greatest British comic since Charlie Chaplin, Sellers was the grand master of 55 films - from Dr. Strangelove, to Being There and the Pink Panther hits. But shadowing his phenomenal career was a history of increasingly bizarre behaviour involving psychotic violence, compulsive promiscuity, drug abuse and humiliating self-destructive obsessions with people including Princess Margaret, Sophia Loren, Liza Minnelli and each of his four wives (Ann Hayes, Britt Ekland, Miranda Quarry and Lynne Frederick). He alternately showered his wives and children with gifts and then threatened to kill them. Sellers' fluidity as an actor made for a terrifying madness that grew like a slow metastasizing cancer throughout his adult life. The book concludes with his premature death at the age of 54.

Genres

Biography

Language

English

Publisher

riverrun

ISBN

9781529444025